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You're reading from AngularJS Web application development Cookbook Over 90 hands-on recipes to architect performant applications and implement best practices in AngularJS

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2014

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781783283354

Length 346 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AngularJS

Concepts

Front End Web Development

Author (1):

Matthew Frisbie

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Sections
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support

1. Maximizing AngularJS Directives

Introduction
Building a simple element directive
Working through the directive spectrum
Manipulating the DOM
Linking directives
Interfacing with a directive using isolate scope
Interaction between nested directives
Optional nested directive controllers
Directive scope inheritance
Directive templating
Isolate scope
Directive transclusion
Recursive directives

2. Expanding Your Toolkit with Filters and Service Types FREE CHAPTER

Introduction
Using the uppercase and lowercase filters
Using the number and currency filters
Using the date filter
Debugging using the json filter
Using data filters outside the template
Using built-in search filters
Chaining filters
Creating custom data filters
Creating custom search filters
Filtering with custom comparators
Building a search filter from scratch
Building a custom search filter expression from scratch
Using service values and constants
Using service factories
Using services
Using service providers
Using service decorators

3. AngularJS Animations

Introduction
Creating a simple fade in/out animation
Replicating jQuery's slideUp() and slideDown() methods
Creating enter animations with ngIf
Creating leave and concurrent animations with ngView
Creating move animations with ngRepeat
Creating addClass animations with ngShow
Creating removeClass animations with ngClass
Staggering batched animations

4. Sculpting and Organizing your Application

Introduction
Manually bootstrapping an application
Using safe $apply
Application file and module organization
Hiding AngularJS from the user
Managing application templates
The "Controller as" syntax

5. Working with the Scope and Model

Introduction
Configuring and using AngularJS events
Managing $scope inheritance
Working with AngularJS forms
Working with <select> and ngOptions
Building an event bus

6. Testing in AngularJS

Introduction
Configuring and running your test environment in Yeoman and Grunt
Understanding Protractor
Incorporating E2E tests and Protractor in Grunt
Writing basic unit tests
Writing basic E2E tests
Setting up a simple mock backend server
Writing DAMP tests
Using the Page Object test pattern

7. Screaming Fast AngularJS

Introduction
Recognizing AngularJS landmines
Creating a universal watch callback
Inspecting your application's watchers
Deploying and managing $watch types efficiently
Optimizing the application using reference $watch
Optimizing the application using equality $watch
Optimizing the application using $watchCollection
Optimizing the application using $watch deregistration
Optimizing template-binding watch expressions
Optimizing the application with the compile phase in ng-repeat
Optimizing the application using track by in ng-repeat
Trimming down watched models

8. Promises

Introduction
Understanding and implementing a basic promise
Chaining promises and promise handlers
Implementing promise notifications
Implementing promise barriers with $q.all()
Creating promise wrappers with $q.when()
Using promises with $http
Using promises with $resource
Using promises with Restangular
Incorporating promises into native route resolves
Implementing nested ui-router resolves

9. What's New in AngularJS 1.3

Introduction
Using HTML5 datetime input types
Combining watchers with $watchGroup
Sanity checking with ng-strict-di
Controlling model input with ngModelOptions
Incorporating $touched and $submitted states
Cleaning up form errors with ngMessages
Trimming your watch list with lazy binding
Creating and integrating custom form validators

10. AngularJS Hacks

Introduction
Manipulating your application from the console
DRYing up your controllers
Using ng-bind instead of ng-cloak
Commenting JSON files
Creating custom AngularJS comments
Referencing deep properties safely using $parse
Preventing redundant parsing

Index

Introduction

In this chapter, you will discover strategies to keep your application clean—visually, structurally, and organizationally.

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